Abstract: In the digital age, big data, block-chain, generative artificial intelligence, for its enjoying scientific, personalized and precise advantages, has brought new development opportunities for education reform on one hand, and triggered deeper risks on the other. These risks are mainly manifested by the facts that the digital divide increases the educational injustice, that the digital impact threatens the information security, that the digital survival inhibits the overall development, and that the digital discipline causes the subjectivity crisis. Such characteristics as trans-temporal, indirect and anonymous, make the identity of each subject overlapped and thus difficult to be transformed. To be more specific, everyone is responsible but no one takes responsibility, and the blurred boundary is an important issue ignored in risk management. With such unpredictable potential risks, the constraints of responsibility ethics are more flexible, so that the action subjects can take the initiative to deal with the risks of educational reform by virtue of the conscious construction of “subject responsibility”. Therefore, to avoid, from the perspective of responsibility ethics, the risk of educational reform in the digital age, we should fulfill the forward-looking responsibility and bridge the digital divide, take formal responsibility to ensure digital security, strengthen contractual responsibility and implement students’ all-round development, improve the natural responsibility, and strengthen the subject consciousness.

Key words: digital age, educational reform, educational reform risks, risk management, responsibility ethics, responsibility boundary